Je Anne Boleyn: Struck With the Dart of Love - Softcover

Vasoli, Sandra

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9781495440960: Je Anne Boleyn: Struck With the Dart of Love

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ISBN 10: 1495440966 ISBN 13: 9781495440960

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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Over the next days, as I went about my business, the King was rarely far from my thoughts. Finally, admitting to myself that my mind was constantly preoccupied with images of him, I decided to spend some time alone in my chamber attempting to sift through my sentiments for the truth.

Gain unprecedented access to one of history’s most tumultuous love stories in Sandra Vasoli’s riveting debut novel, Je Anne Boleyn.

Sixteenth-century England witnessed a roiling tide of changes—most of which were fueled by the scandalous romance between King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

The first volume of this two-part series tells the story of what really happened from Anne’s own point of view. In sumptuous detail, Je Anne Boleyn recounts the moment the lovers first met, as well as the powerful and climactic consequences that ensued.

Scrupulously researched, this fictional memoir welcomes readers into the head and heart of one of history’s most misunderstood women. Learn how much Anne valued her female friendships, her desperate desire to bear children, and what lay behind her instinctive mistrust of Cardinal Wolsey.

Readers will gladly come to know Anne Boleyn like never before.

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About the Author:

Sandra Vasoli earned a bachelor’s degree in English and biology from Villanova University before embarking on a thirty-five-year career in human resources for a large international company.

Having written essays, stories, and articles all her life, Vasoli was prompted by her overwhelming fascination with the Tudor dynasty to try her hand at writing fiction.

While researching what would eventually become her Je Anne Boleyn series, Vasoli was granted unprecedented access to the Papal Library. There she was able to read the original love letters from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn—an event that contributed greatly to the creation of her fictional memoir.

Vasoli currently lives in Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two greyhounds.

Review:

"This is fine Tudor-era fiction, well recommended." Steve Donoghue, The Historical Novel Society

Sandra Vasoli takes up the familiar story of King Henry VIII's stormy relationship with Anne Boleyn, the woman who would become his second wife and for whose sake Henry would break with the Catholic Church in pursuit of a new marriage and a male heir for the kingdom.
Each of the two volumes in the series can be read independently, and each tells the story of a period in Anne's life; in Struck with the Dart of Love, a brilliant, charismatic Henry meets Anne for the first time. As the two begin to fall in love and Anne begins to rise at Court, Vasoli dramatizes the rivalries and power-jockeying between all parties, especially the enmity between Anne and Cardinal Wolsey.
The second volume, Truth Endures, gives readers the story of Anne's short and troubled rule, from its heady beginning with her promise of a male heir to the growing disaffection between her and Henry.
Vasoli's prose is solid and often lovely, and her characterization of Anne in particular is refreshingly complex and sympathetic
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